“We were sad to hear recently of the death of Professor Michael Rush of the University of Exeter. Michael was a pioneering and indefatigable scholar of parliament, whose book, ‘The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868: from Gentlemen to Players’ (Oxford 2001), was the first serious study of its kind into the social background and political formation of MPs from the nineteenth century to close to the present.” historyofparliament.com/2025/10/1…